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Comet ISON journeys through the solar system
In this image made on Oct. 9, comet ISON’s atmopshere, or coma, has been removed, leaving behind the nucleus. (NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI) and Jian-Yang Li (Planetary Science Institute))
NASA’s Messenger spacecraft took this image of comet ISON during its closest approach to Mercury on Nov. 20. (ASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington/Southwest Research Institute)
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